Microsoft Teams: Meeting details displayed on pre-join screen

Available for in-tenant participants, the meeting pre-join screen will now include contextual information about the meeting like meeting title, scheduled start time, scheduled end time, and number of participants who have joined the call.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Town Hall Graph APIs

The Teams town hall Graph APIs allow users to create, update, and delete town hall events.

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Microsoft Clipchamp: Work account support in Clipchamp’s desktop app

The updated Clipchamp desktop app introduces work account support and lets users with AAD/Entra ID accounts directly access Clipchamp for work through the desktop app for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Users of Clipchamp for work will be able to access the video editor in the app without using a browser. Microsoft 365 administrators can control if their users are able to access both Clipchamp for work and Clipchamp for personal accounts via the app or only Clipchamp for work.
More info: https://support.microsoft.com/topic/how-to-enable-or-disable-clipchamp-for-users-in-your-organization-5b74028f-6dd8-423c-a6cb-8e2b8b42c6e7#bkmk_app_access

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OneDrive: Copilot integration with the file viewer in Microsoft 365

Copilot in OneDrive will soon be available from the file viewer in Microsoft 365 for customers with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Clicking on the Copilot icon in the file viewer will open the Copilot chat panel which will allow you to summarize or get information from your files in OneDrive or SharePoint.

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OneDrive: Recurring meetings in Meetings view

The upcoming update to the OneDrive Meetings view will display your recurring meetings in chronological order, providing easy access to all related files, past recordings, and details like the meeting owner, attendees, time, and location. This feature helps you prepare for future meetings by allowing you to quickly access pre-read materials and review recordings or content from past meetings.

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SharePoint Pages: New Section Level Content Align

With Section Level Content Align, authors will now be able to center and bottom align all the webparts within a single section. This will make it easier for all of the columns in your section to be visually harmonious and reduce the need for the spacer webpart.

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Microsoft Stream: Playlist support for Stream web part in SharePoint

The Stream web part, used when adding video to SharePoint pages and sites, will soon support embedding playlists from the same site in grid and theater layouts.

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Microsoft Viva Engage: Navigation enhancements

Microsoft Viva Engage is rolling out enhanced navigation for a seamless user experience. The changes will be available for all Viva Engage licensed organizations, with additional changes for Viva Communications and Communities bundle and Viva Suite. The rollout will begin mid-March 2024 and is expected to complete by late March 2024. No action is needed to prepare for this rollout.

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Microsoft Viva Connections app: Search your intranet in Microsoft Teams on iOS and Android tablets

Microsoft Viva Connections app will soon allow iOS and Android tablet users to search their intranet in the app in Teams. No action is needed to prepare for this rollout. This feature will be available worldwide from early April 2024 to mid-April 2024.

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Microsoft Defender Antivirus: Changes to “engine update” support plans

Microsoft Defender Antivirus is changing its support plan for the anti-malware scan “engine update” (MpEngine.dll) to only support N-2 versions. This is due to new security intelligence update logic being dependent on newer scan engine logic, and to ensure customers are not running an older scan engine version with a known vulnerability. The changes will take effect on May 1, 2024. To be fully supported, keep current with the latest engine updates. Minimum requirements are version 1.1.23110.2, version 1.1.24010.10, or newer.

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